Ritz Address, Surprisingly Soulful Italian Wine Card
Las Colinas · Irving · Italian, steak, seafood · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · October 12, 2026
RagingWine reviewed The Dining Room at The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walk into a Ritz-Carlton and you expect a phone-book wine list padded with Opus One and marked up to fund someone's yacht. What you actually get here is a tight, 22-bottle list with a clear Italian backbone and enough interesting detours to make you stop and read it twice. The pricing, frankly, is not what we expected from a hotel dining room.
The list runs almost exclusively by the glass, which means it doubles as its own BTG program — a bold and guest-friendly call. The Italian identity is real: you've got Benanti Etna Bianco and Tenuta delle Terre Etna Rosso representing Sicily, La Spinetta's Derthona Timorasso doing something genuinely nerdy in the whites, G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo and La Rasina Brunello di Montalcino holding down Piemonte and Tuscany respectively, and La Miraja Grignolino — a grape most Texans couldn't pick out of a lineup. The Champagne section overperforms for a non-wine-bar setting, going Dom Pérignon 2013 by the glass alongside Billecart-Salmon and the Barons Rothschild Cuvée Ritz. The gaps are real though: no Barolo, no Amarone, no depth below the single-bottle-per-region approach — but what's here is chosen with intention.
All 22 wines are available by the glass, ranging from $14 for Vietti Cascinetta Moscato d'Asti up to $70 for the Dom Pérignon 2013. That spread is unusually wide and unusually well-curated for a hotel restaurant. The Massican Annia Bianca at $17/glass is the kind of pour that makes you wonder if someone at the Ritz actually likes wine.
The Bottom Line
This is not the lazy hotel wine list you're bracing for. Someone made real choices here — Timorasso, Grignolino, Etna Rosso, Vajra — and priced most of them fairly for the setting. It earns the Wild Card badge because nothing about 'Ritz-Carlton in Irving, Texas' prepares you for a list this considered. If you're in Las Colinas for any reason, it's worth sitting down for a glass.
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